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Created page with "'''Mark Adam Foley''' (born September 8, 1954) is an American real-estate broker and former Republican politician who represented Florida’s 16th congressional district from 1995 until his resignation in 2006.<ref name="wired">[https://www.wired.com/2006/09/explicit-e-mails-foley-quits Rep. Mark Foley Resigns Over Explicit Messages]</ref> Earlier he was a Lake Worth city commissioner, state representative, and state senator. In Congress he served on the House Ways and..." |
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On 28 September 2006 ABC News released sexually explicit e-mails and instant messages Foley had sent to male House pages aged 16–17.<ref>[https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/BrianRoss/story?id=2509586 Foley's IM Exchange With Underage Page]</ref> Foley resigned the next day and entered treatment for alcoholism and “sexual compulsion.”<ref name="wired" /> | On 28 September 2006 ABC News released sexually explicit e-mails and instant messages Foley had sent to male House pages aged 16–17.<ref>[https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/BrianRoss/story?id=2509586 Foley's IM Exchange With Underage Page]</ref> Foley resigned the next day and entered treatment for alcoholism and “sexual compulsion.”<ref name="wired" /> | ||
A House Ethics Committee report later blamed “systemic failures” in oversight but found no additional rules violations,<ref>[https:// | A House Ethics Committee report later blamed “systemic failures” in oversight but found no additional rules violations,<ref>[https://www.congress.gov/109/crpt/hrpt733/CRPT-109hrpt733.pdf Investigative Subcommittee Report on the Mark Foley Matter]</ref> and state/federal investigators closed their probes in 2008 without criminal charges, citing statutes then requiring proof of physical contact.<ref>[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/LegalCenter/story?id=2529811 Could Avoid Criminal Charges]</ref> | ||
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Mark Adam Foley (born September 8, 1954) is an American real-estate broker and former Republican politician who represented Florida’s 16th congressional district from 1995 until his resignation in 2006.[1] Earlier he was a Lake Worth city commissioner, state representative, and state senator. In Congress he served on the House Ways and Means Committee and co-founded the Congressional Caucus on Missing & Exploited Children, helping write the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act (2006).[2]
2006 congressional page scandal
On 28 September 2006 ABC News released sexually explicit e-mails and instant messages Foley had sent to male House pages aged 16–17.[3] Foley resigned the next day and entered treatment for alcoholism and “sexual compulsion.”[1] A House Ethics Committee report later blamed “systemic failures” in oversight but found no additional rules violations,[4] and state/federal investigators closed their probes in 2008 without criminal charges, citing statutes then requiring proof of physical contact.[5]
His hypocrisy is nonetheless evident in his sponsorship of legislation stipulating harsher penalties for intergenerational sex. He was a supporter and instigator of the sexual panic that is sweeping the nation, making sex with a junior, however either is defined, even up to age 18 [...] more severely punishable than murdering a youth. [6]